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If this article isn’t a sign of obsession with opinion polls, I just don’t know what is.

Anyone looking for evidence of media sensationalism? Here’s the perfect story to demonstrate it. I remember hearing on the radio a week and a half ago about the asteroid on a supposed “impact course” with the planet, destined to make a crashing arrival in the year 2019. Now it looks like the odds of this rank right up there with the odds of a salesman selling WorldCom stock.

Knowing how our judicial system can be, I’m not so sure that this satire won’t become reality. I hope no one at our favorite corporations is reading this. They just might be able to find a lawyer to do it.

Probably most people reading this have heard about the lawsuits filed against tobacco companies because of the health problems associated with their products. Now, we have some guy suing fast food chains because of his obesity!! Shame on the citizens of Lawyerville who would take on a case like this!!

Sins of the Flesh Really Do Catch Up to You
Check out this new CDC report that says that couples who cohabitate are more likely to break up than married couples. Well . . . . someone did try to tell me once that marriage doesn’t make a difference. So much for that. If the CDC were really bold, maybe they’ll take on the effects of contraception on a marriage.

I can’t get over what an abominition, this game is. Whatever happened to the quest to give the bad guys a swift kick in the derriere? It seems that the only purpose in this kind of game is to engage yourself in blantant immorality. I won’t be playing this on my Playstation 2.

The sad part about this kind of entertainment is that there is often no shortage of Christians who buy it. Few of us would tolerate people standing and making statements that were offensive to our friends and family members, but for some reason we have no problem entertaining ourselves with things that offend our God whom we should love more. Heck, we pay people to offend God.

Check out this blog from Emily Stimpson on renewing the Church. It’s a great alternative to the counterfeit Catholicism that’s being pushed by other groups these days.

I’ve mentioned the story about these women who essentially received a simulation of the sacrament of Holy Orders. I call it a simulation because it is impossible that a woman can be ordained. Here is the warning given to the women published on Peter’s Net. Has anyone heard any indication that these women have repented? I haven’t. If they are indeed excommunicated, we might be tempted to say something along the lines of “Score one for Ratzinger!!” I beg of you not to do this. We must pray for these women’s conversion back to the true faith. Really, we need to pray that all people everywhere will have the grace to accept God as he is, not as we wish him to be.

Good evening, I’ve made it back in one piece. Where was I? No . . . not at World Youth Day, but I was at a close second . . . Franciscan University of Steubenville. I went to a Defending the Faith Conference. There were great speakers, but man, was it intense. It did make me eager to go out and preach the Gospel.

Anyway, check out this great article on the Holy Father.

I’ll be taking a break from blogging until Monday. See you then.